📢 Project AWeSoMe celebrates a new publication! 📢
Teenagers spend a lot of time communicating with friends online, but how do those interactions actually affect their wellbeing?
In a preregistered 100-day diary study with 479 adolescents, Loes Janssen together with Amber van der Wal and Ine Beyens found that:
💚 Feeling supported by friends online → higher wellbeing, lower distress
💔 Feeling ignored by friends online → lower wellbeing, higher distress
Adolescents with elevated depressive symptoms showed amplified effects in both directions: more vulnerable to negative experiences, but also gaining more from positive ones.
For parents and clinicians, this highlights the value of open conversations: helping adolescents navigate their digital social world more purposefully, and in doing so, supporting their mental health.
Find the full article here and check out the LinkedIn post!
